Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-222) and index.

Parenting after the century of the child : introduction / Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes -- Parenthood and childhood : debates within the social sciences / Haldis Haukanes and Tatjana Thelen -- What is a good mother? Historical shifts, divergent models in urban Japan / Susan D. Holloway, Yoko Yamamoto and Sawako Suzuki -- No school without foster families in northern Benin : a social historical approach / Erdmute Alber -- Growing up nuclear? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' visions of family, parenting and gender roles / Haldis Haukanes and Marit Tjomsland -- Child welfare, biopower and mestizo relatedness in Quito, Ecuador / Esben Leifsen -- "In the best interests of the child" : intergenerational legacies of past aboriginal child removal policies in Australia / Tiffany McComsey -- "Privatizing parenthood"-modernizing childhood? Paradoxes of school reform in Eastern Germany / Tatjana Thelen -- Representations of parenting practices of native and immigrant families in institutional care service settings in Barcelona / Marta Bertrán Tarrés -- Custody and coming of age : three American cases / Randy Frances Kandel and Anne Griffiths -- Child rights or wrongs : dilemmas in implementing support for children in the Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania, in the era of globalised AIDs approaches / Mai Bente Snipstad, Gro Th. Lie and Dagfinn Winje.